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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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Has being in privacy circles not taught you that private and free don’t get along?
Companies dont donate server space, bandwidth and all the other hosting costs just to be nice.
@GreyTechnician @privacy define “private host providers”
How much traffic do you expect? An old laptop and DDNS service would have you covered.
Depending on what they mean by “private” throwing i2p on there instead of ddns might be just the ticket.
Then you can register a “domain” on reg.i2p with something like yourname.i2p as well.
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https://write.as/
https://writefreely.org/
https://codeberg.page/
https://bearblog.dev/
neither github, gitlab or medium are private. stay away from those.
specially from medium. medium has been trying to centralize and paywall the previous decentralized and open blog ecosystem.
I recommend bearblog.dev which is more akin to Medium, where you don’t need to create the website, you just write the content.
neocities.org is more similar to github pages, they host a static site for free. Although you’d be better by using a cheap VPS.
Avoid the likes of tumblr, netlify, vercel and a long etc. They all have important privacy issues or open access of information.
What’s wrong with GitLab?
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No, if you know where to look. Medium is just awful. There are too many things wrong with Medium that I won’t elaborate here, but I’ll leave some sources:
The alternatives that I recommend on my comment have decent privacy policies and are not even close as an abuser as Medium is. They are also free software.
Here there are some decent server providers recommendations for self-hosters which require nor your real name or billing address in case anyone is interested.
https://privacy.awiki.org/#hosting
What are you trying to do?
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have you looked at the community? this is c/privacy and they recommended blogger lol
Because in spite of the question (“private host” as opposed to “privacy friendly host”), people have commented in the context of privacy (probably because of the community we’re on); and in that context, the mere mention of github or gitlab is met with downvotes.
IMHO using github or gitlab for that isn’t much of a concern privacy wise (at least not more than browsing a website from the companies behind those services), but it surely is when it comes to data integrity (which is a totally separate concern, but people often confuse it with privacy, like they also do with security). I would not trust either service with that.
Recommending Medium and Blogger in a privacy community is terrible advice. It’s disappointing that this is actually getting upvoted.
Edit: The other two comments provide actual private recommendations. This comment would be fine outside a privacy community.